{"id":21363,"date":"2023-03-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21363"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T13:10:31","slug":"the-van-pelt-announce-artisans-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21363","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Van Pelt Announce &#8216;Artisans &amp; Merchants&#8217;<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>NYC Cult Indie Faves The Van Pelt Announce &#8216;Artisans &amp; Merchants&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Their First New Studio LP In A Quarter Century &#8211; Out March 17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pre-order <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thevanpelt.bandcamp.com\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Stream The New Single + Video \u2018Punk House\u2019 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aSPXNptUmHo\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Band Announces UK, EU and NYC Shows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Influential band stands among a select few of the most revered second-wave emo \/ indie bands of all time including their peers in The Promise Ring, Mineral, Christie Front Drive, Boys Life, Braid, Karate, and Rainer Maria.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3-1140x815.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Van-Pelt-3.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The lines between post-hardcore, indie rock, and emo blurred on the two mid-\u201990s full-lengths from the Van Pelt.&#8221;-&nbsp;<strong>Pitchfork<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;New York City\u2019s The Van Pelt are an influential, but too often overlooked indie rock band &#8212; cult favourites for many an emo-inclined crate digger.&#8221;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Consequence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;should be mentioned a lot more than they are when you talk about the history of emo.&#8221;-&nbsp;<strong>Washed Up Emo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After twenty-five years of waiting, New York City cult indie favourites&nbsp;<strong>The Van Pelt<\/strong>&nbsp;have announced a March 17th release date for their upcoming fourth studio full-length, titled&nbsp;&#8216;Artisans &amp; Merchants,&#8217;&nbsp;which will be released jointly by&nbsp;Spartan Records&nbsp;in North America,&nbsp;La Castanya&nbsp;in Europe\/World and&nbsp;Gringo&nbsp;in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album was recorded and mixed in Summer \/ Fall 2021 by&nbsp;Jeff Zeigler&nbsp;(The War On Drugs, Kurt Vile) at Uniform Recording in Philadelphia, PA, and features guest appearances by&nbsp;Nate Kinsella&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ted Leo&nbsp;among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first single \u2018Punk House\u2019 is out now, along with a brand-new music video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Van Pelt &quot;Punk House&quot; [Official Video]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSPXNptUmHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Frontman Chris Leo says,&nbsp;&#8220;When a bunch of old VHS tapes were unearthed, the band had them digitized and they turned out to be from US tours of the mid-90s. The footage is mainly of daily banalities: random purchases at rest stops, packing and unpacking the van, highway views that could be on the outskirts of Any Town USA. Yet there is a nostalgia to it that&#8217;s compelling. The song mirrors the mood in both sound and text. Lines like &#8220;The floor is filled with resin on the place where you&#8217;re to sleep \/ if you have enough to drink you can pretend that it&#8217;s a sheet&#8221; bring any musician back to the rougher side of days on the road &#8212; yet again, the subtext here is that the spirit of it all is to be longed for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Pelt has announced a series of UK, EU and Brooklyn shows in March and April. See dates below. Pre-order &#8216;Artisans &amp; Merchants&#8217; here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevanpelt.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/thevanpelt.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Cult Indie Faves The Van Pelt Announce &#8216;Artisans &amp; Merchants&#8217; Their First New Studio LP In A Quarter Century &#8211; Out March 17 Pre-order HERE: Stream The New Single + Video \u2018Punk House\u2019 HERE Band Announces UK, EU and NYC Shows Influential band stands among a select few of the most revered second-wave emo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3121,1787,1818,1710,1680,1833,2052],"class_list":["post-21363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-division-pr","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-new-album","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmonline","tag-tourlife","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21365,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions\/21365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}